Tag: rock

The resulting Single and Pop Music Events raised around £10 million – which is nothing but a tiny drop in the ocean when it comes to the economic repairing of an exploited Continent! By the time all the expenses were met, aid on the ground was reduced to a few mealy-sacks given-out in-front of a BBC film crew. Starving Black children were filmed – whilst a musical score was superimposed over their suffering – all designed to emotionally manipulate viewers (sat in their comfortable Western homes) to donate money over the telephone. Adult Africans were depicted as being incapable of solving their own problems, or possessing the ability to exercise self-determination. During this time, Whilst the White West collectively deluded itself, Black athletes competing on the world stage would refuse to shake-hands with their White colleagues – or be filmed together in a bid to avoid this trap. It would seem that in the intervening 40-years, Bob Geldof has failed to realise what it took Ed Sheeran to learn in just ten.